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‘Bodies after bodies are coming’: Death and devastation in Delhi
Crematoriums and burial grounds are running out of space in the capital. A crematorium ground in New Delhi with pyres of people who died of Covid-19. | Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
On Tuesday afternoon, advocate Anjali Chauhan stood facing the body of her mentor at Dayanand Muktidham Crematorium in Central Delhi. Her mentor, Supreme Court lawyer Anip Sachthey, 65, was battling Covid-19 as well as continuing his treatment for liver cancer when his oxygen levels dropped on Monday, Chauhan said.
His family secured an oxygen cylinder after hours of searching, but it could not be linked to the venturi mask, said Chauhan. Sachthey died at his residence that evening. He had served as a senior executive member of the Supreme Court Bar Association.
April 23, 2021
As if scenes from overcrowded hospitals and SOS cries from people struggling to access oxygen and medicines were not enough, now images from New Delhi’s cremation grounds and graveyards are reflecting how bad things on the ground really are.
The national capital, which posted low single-digit daily Covid-19 deaths for most of March, has seen a sharp increase in fatality rates over the last couple of weeks. On April 22, the city clocked 306 such deaths, according to government data.
Since March 1, Delhi has seen over 2,284 Covid-related deaths, as per official data.
There are fears that this tally may rise sharply in the coming weeks as the healthcare infrastructure in Delhi has been under stress for the last several days with thousands of new cases being reported on a daily basis. While India is witnessing its second wave of Covid-19, this is the fourth such spike in Delhi.
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Delhi s crematoriums say they are cremating more than 600 bodies daily – double the official figure
From Esha Mitra in New Delhi Yevgeny Pakhomov/TASS via Getty Images
Delhi’s crematoriums have been cremating more than 600 bodies daily for the last week, the mayor of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) told CNN Wednesday.
The official death toll for Delhi has been just over 300 per day.
“Yes the reported deaths are about 300, but we are definitely having to cremate more than 600 daily, they are deliberately under-reporting deaths,” Jai Prakash, mayor of NDMC, said.
On Monday, Delhi cremated 631 bodies and had 22 burials, according to data from Delhi’s three municipal corporations.